‘Black Wall Street’ Is Being Gentrified

The City of Tulsa continues to plunder the historic district and displace its Black community

Kendriana Washington
ZORA
Published in
6 min readMar 19, 2020

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A close-up photo of Oklahoma on a map of the United States.
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WWhen most people hear about Tulsa, Oklahoma, they think of Black Wall Street and the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. The massacre’s forthcoming 2021 centennial and its depiction in the HBO series Watchmen has renewed interest in the Greenwood District…

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